Davis DA-2
| DA-2 | |
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| Role | Civil utility aircraft |
| Manufacturer | Homebuilt |
| Designer | Leeon D. Davis |
| First flight | 21 May 1966 |
| Number built | ca. 45 by 1985 |
| Unit cost |
$2300 in 1971[1] |
Davis DA-2 at Airventure 2008.
Davis DA-2A
The Davis DA-2 is a light aircraft designed in the United States in the 1960s and marketed for homebuilding.,[2] While it is a low-wing monoplane of largely conventional design with fixed tricycle undercarriage, the DA-2 is given a distinctive appearance by its slab-like fuselage construction and its V-tail.[3] The pilot and a single passenger sit side-by-side. Construction of the aircraft is sheet aluminum throughout, with the sole compound curves formed a fiberglass cowling and fairings.[4]
The DA-3 was a single DA-2 enlarged to accommodate four people. Work proceeded through 1973-74, but the aircraft was never completed.
Variants
- DA-2
- DA-2A
- DA-3
Specifications (typical DA-2)
Data from Popular Mechanics August 1973
General characteristics
- Crew: One pilot
- Capacity: 1 passenger
- Length: 17 ft 10 in (5.44 m)
- Wingspan: 19 ft 3 in (5.86 m)
- Height: 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
- Wing area: 83 ft2 (7.7 m2)
- Empty weight: 610 lb (277 kg)
- Gross weight: 1,125 lb (510 kg)
- Powerplant: 1 × Continental A65 horizontally-opposed four-cylinder piston engine, 65 hp (49 kW)
- 1 × Continental O200 horizontally-opposed four-cylinder piston engine, 100 hp ( kW)
Performance
- Maximum speed: 120 mph (193 km/h)
- Cruise speed: 110 mph ( km/h)
- Range: 450 miles (725 km)
References
- Notes
- Sources
- Taylor, Michael J. H. (1989). Jane's Encyclopedia of Aviation. London: Studio Editions. p. 305.
- Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1985-86. London: Jane's Yearbooks. pp. 587–88.
- Davisson, Budd (May 1973). "Flying the Davis DA-2A Homebuilt". Air Progress.
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